Scottie Scheffler wins The Players Championship

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Former School of Texas star Scottie Scheffler fired a final-round 8-under 64 on Sunday to place up a one-shot victory at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. The win marked the one hundredth official PGA TOUR victory for The School of Texas Males’s Golf program, achieved by 17 utterly totally different individuals throughout the 98-year historic previous of the TOUR. 

This marked the second-straight week that Scheffler has obtained on the PGA TOUR, as he captured the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week at Bay Hill in Orlando. It marked his second PGA TOUR victory by way of the 2024 calendar yr and the eighth normal in his occupation. All eight of his wins have come over the past 26 months. In seven begins this season, Scheffler has recorded six top-10 performances and has not accomplished worse than tied for seventeenth.

The No. 1 participant on the earth, Scheffler turned the first back-to-back winner in The Players Championship’s 50-year historic previous. Scheffler registered a 72-hole score of 20-under 268 (67-69-68-64) to defeat a trio of individuals at 19-under that included Brian Harmon, Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark.

Scheffler began the day at 12-under, 5 pictures behind 54-hole chief Schauffele and in a tie for sixth place. Scheffler holed out for eagle on the par-four No. 4 after which added birdies at No. 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12 to catch Schauffele. He added a final birdie at No. 16 to climb to 20-under.

All-Time PGA TOUR victories by Former Longhorns